Members of an expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences who arrived in September 1901 at an excavation site where the body of a woolly mammoth was unearthed. The body was located in 1900 by an Evenk hunter on the bank of the Beryozovka River, a tributary of the Kolyma River. From left: Paleontologist Yevgeny Pfitzmeier and Senior Zoological Museum Zoologist Otto Hertz.29.09.1901#5951202
The Russian Historical Archive Abroad in Prague is one of the largest archives of the Russian emigres in Europe, 1923- 1945. On December 6, 1945, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Fierlinger presented the act of conveyance to the acceptance commission . Pictured: The Royal family. Emperor Nicholas II and his family, an eyching by S. Livitsky. From the collection of the Central Archive of the October Revolution of the USSR (currently the State Archive of the Russian Federation).01.01.1901#6671028
Women haulers drag floats along the Sura River. Early 1900s. From the collection of the State History Museum.30.06.1900#5660804
Vladimir Stasov was an outstanding art historian, art and music critic. For more than 50 years he worked at the Public Library in St Petersburg. In 1872 he was appointed head of the Art Department, then repeatedly served as head of the library. He was one of the most influential figures in the artistic life of the post-reform era, an ideologist of the Peredvizhniki Society and the Mighty Handful.20.04.1900#8762872
Leonid Sobinov, principal singer at Bolshoi Theater (now State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia), as Lensky in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera "Eugene Onegin," 1900.01.01.1900#6684036
Revolutionary Vera Zasulich (1849-1919), an activist of the Russian revolutionary movement, a Narodnik (Populist) terrorist, a member of the People's Will movement and one of the first Russian Social Democrats.30.09.1899#6026421
Sculptor Pavel Trubetskoi sculpts writer Leo Tolstoy's bust at Tolstoy's estate in Yasnaya Polyana. 1899.28.08.1899#6430933
Moscow. The finishing shop at the Abrikosov and Sons Confectionery, late 19th century.01.08.1899#3021192
Author Anton Chekhov reads his play Seagull to the theater actors. Standing: Nemirovich-Danchenko, Luzhsky, Andreyeva, Andreyev, Grigroyeva. Sitting: Rayevskaya, Vishnevsky, Artyom, Knipper, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Lilina, Roksanova, Meyehold, Tikhomirov. Public Art Theater, 1899.28.02.1899#5851618
Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) was a Russian revolutionary, the wife of Vladimir Lenin, a Soviet government minister, party, public and cultural activist and an organizer and main ideologist of the Soviet education system and that of Communist indoctrination for young people. This photo was taken during her Siberian exile.02.07.1896#6043191
Vladimir Lenin's photo at the Moscow division of the Russian Imperial Secret Police Department. This photo was taken after his arrest in the early hours of December 9, 1895 in connection with the activities of the Union for the Liberation of the Working Class in St. Petersburg. Courtesy of the Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, now the Russian State Archive of Social-Political History.11.12.1895#5851605
In May 1893 Pyotr Tchaikovsky was conferred upon the honorary title of Doctor of Music by the Cambridge University. Pyotr Tchaikovsky wears a gown of the university doctor. Courtesy of Pyotr Tchaikovsky House and Museum in Klin.01.05.1893#5646327
Leo Tolstoy, his family members and guests are seen on the front porch of his home at Yasnaya Polyana. Photo courtesy of the Leo Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow.29.09.1892#8775517
Leo Tolstoy, his family members and guests are seen at Yasnaya Polyana. Photo courtesy of the Leo Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow.29.09.1892#8775520
A typhoid hospital in the Novaya Sloboda village, Lukoyanovsky County (now Bolsheboldinsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region). 1891-1892. A photo copy by M. Dmitriyev.01.01.1892#6410614
Old Moscow. Sretenka Street in the early 1880s with the Sukharev Tower in the background.02.07.1882#5746391
The Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery on Moscow's Petrovka Street. Most of its architectural complex was completed in the 17th and 18th centuries. This 1882 photo is part of the album Moscow and Muscovites, stored at the State History Museum.01.07.1882#6684032
The New Monastery of the Savior in Moscow. Its architectural ensemble evolved in the 17th and 18th centuries. This 1882 photo is part of the album Moscow and Muscovites, stored at the State History Museum..01.07.1882#6684034
The Church of Archangel Gabriel (Menshikov Tower) in Moscow's Chistiye Prudy District. It was built in 1707 to a design by Ivan Zarudny. This 1881 photo is part of the album Moscow and Muscovites, stored at the State History Museum.01.08.1881#6684031
Portrait of a Russian writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev by Konstantin Makovsky, 1871. The Ivan Turgenev State Museum, the city of Oryol.25.04.1871#3082442
The Russian Empire's naval expedition to the United States of North America in 1863-1864. Photo: A group of officers from the Russian naval squadron in Boston.30.11.1864#5928999
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the future Russian and Soviet scientist, the father of the theory of inter-planetary travel and a rocketry pioneer, as a child. Ryazan, 1864.30.11.1864#6090415
The Tchaikovsky family. From left: Peter Tchaikovsky at the age of eight, his mother Alexandra Andreyevna, sister Alexandra (at her mother's lap), step-sister Zinaida, older brother Nikolai, little brother Ippolit and father Ilya Petrovich. This 1848 photo courtesy of the Tchaikovsky House-Museum in Klin.19.10.1848#5671848
